Return of the Blue Lego

Apple eliminated the blue lego icon that indicates a missing plugin on the iPad. I believe that this is a not so subtle way of shifting user’s belief that the iPad browser is lacking something, to believing that the site they are viewing is broken. In response to this, I’ve created the blueLego edition of SWFObject 2.2.

Building Framework Independent Code Libraries

I’ve recently encountered a couple of libraries that despite being 99% pure AS3 had minor dependencies on the Flex framework that prevented their use in Actionscript projects or in Flash without modification. This limits the immediate usefulness of the libraries, and fragments the community’s access to them. Here are some tips to help you build framework independent libraries…

PerformanceTest v2 Beta: Benchmark AS3 / Graphics

PerformanceTest v2 lets you benchmark execution time and memory usage in your AS3 code. It can be used with a single line of code, or you can develop robust test suites and integrate them with unit tests. Trace text outputs, or log robust XML reports to track and analyze the performance characteristics of your projects.

ASDocr: Simple ASDoc UI, AS3 Documentation Tool

I’m a big fan of ASDoc! It allows you to write simple comments in your AS3 classes, then generate HTML documentation from them. This is great in that it allows developers to maintain source code and documentation simultaneously, and it reduces the overall burden in writing documentation by reading the core API information from the code directly. Unfortunately, the ASDoc tool is command line based, and can be a bit of a pain to work with. That’s where ASDocr comes in…